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Speed limit   /spid lˈɪmət/   Listen
Speed limit

noun
1.
Regulation establishing the top speed permitted on a given road.






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"Speed limit" Quotes from Famous Books



... him for breaking the speed limit," Gladwin nodded, leaning back against a table and ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie

... let her out," said Miss Childe contentedly. "It's such a relief to feel there's no speed limit," she added, ...
— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates

... and wandered about the dull town. He had no car with him and he saw a racer that caught his fancy. It had the lean, fleet look of a thoroughbred horse, and the dealer promised that it could triple the speed limit. He went out with a demonstrator and the car made good the dealer's word. It ran with such zeal that Jim was warned by three different policemen on the Boston Post Road that he would be arrested the next time he came ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... Your Honor, these prisoners are charged with defacing landmarks, violating the pure food law, exceeding the speed limit and disorderly conduct. Judge, Your Honor, these miscreants defaced our landmarks by drinking the only bottle of champagne wine that has ever been in our village—the bottle that for so long has graced the window of our leading hotel and was looked ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey

... trying to get rid of the police-court lawyer, Mawruss, he should ought to be arranged before the magistrate in a traffic court, y'understand, and should be accused of driving at the rate of twenty-two miles an hour, which is two miles past the legal speed limit, and then he would find out that all them commandants of Ruhleben and the other German prison camps wasn't even new beginners in the art of making prisoners feel cheap, because you take one of these here traffic-court magistrates which has had years of experience bawling out respectable ...
— Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things • Montague Glass



Words linked to "Speed limit" :   ordinance, regulation



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